Steve Forman photographed an American robin, a black-capped chickadee, a common grackle, a house finch, a northern cardinal, a red-tailed hawk, a female red-winged blackbird along with European starlings, and a male red-winged blackbird at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough.

Gail Sartori photographed these eastern bluebirds in Wayland.

Steve Forman photographed this mallard at Hager Pond in Marlborough.

Sharon Tentarelli photographed this pair of northern cardinals in Sudbury.

Jon Turner photographed an American goldfinch, a common raven, and a red-tailed hawk in Bolton.

Sue Feldberg photographed a black-capped chickadee, a blue jay, a gray squirrel, a house finch, a mourning dove, a northern cardinal, a tufted titmouse, and a white-throated sparrow in Sudbury.

Jon Turner photographed a pair of hooded mergansers passing by several painted turtles sunning in Bolton.

Steve Moro photographed a tufted titmouse, a downy woodpecker, and a white-breasted nuthatch in Framingham.

Steve Forman photographed a pair of common mergansers and ring-necked ducks on Bartlett Pond in Northborough.

Dawn Dentzer recorded a video of a spotted salamander rising to the surface for air at a vernal pool in Bolton. Dawn also photographed a mourning cloak butterfly and the catkins and bursting bud of a hazelnut there, too. The mourning cloak butterfly, which shelters through our winter season, is often one of the first butterflies we see as spring approaches.

Steve Forman photographed a mute swan landing on the water and a ring-billed gull dropping a fish it had caught over Hager Pond in Marlborough.

Steve Forman photographed this red-winged blackbird at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough.